Can You Get a DAB Radio with an EPG and Record Function? - Best Radios
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DAB radios with an EPG and recording facility are very hard to find. A few years ago, there were some radios on the market with these two features, but they have since been discontinued. Television viewers are used to having an electronic programme guide (EPG) that lists forthcoming programmes across times and available channels. They …

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I really like the idea of treating the radio like a #MythTV PVR – to browse a schedule, prioritize programs and have them automatically recorded. But this article is bad news. It says the devices that could do this have been discontinued.

Is that still true? The article is 4 years old.

In principle, a DAB+ radio should be a network appliance. Just like Silicondust makes TV tuners with cat5 ethernet connections, it would be useful to have a DAB+ tuner that’s cat5 attached so software can present the schedule on a big screen and schedule recordings. Doesn’t exist, does it?

    • ChrisMEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      A typical action is to switch to a certain service in a given channel, another action is to dump the audio of the selected service into a file, stopping the dump, to halt the program, to dump the text the the Dynamic Label into a file, to dump the FIC data into a file, or to do nothing.

      So it looks like you can probably use that as an EPG and recorder for DAB(+)!